* can't view Web pages from Object Details dialog > Links > View Resource. No error, but no activity. Possibly at the same time saw output "[5344] kstars(5344)/kdeui (KNotification) void __thiscall KNotification::slotReceivedIdError(const class QDBusError &): Error while contacting notify daemon "The name org.kde.knotify was not provided by any .service files"

* can't view Web pages from Object Details dialog > Links > View Resource. No error, but no activity. Possibly at the same time saw output "[5344] kstars(5344)/kdeui (KNotification) void __thiscall KNotification::slotReceivedIdError(const class QDBusError &): Error while contacting notify daemon "The name org.kde.knotify was not provided by any .service files"

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:: I know this last error - but I don't know another fix than kill all apps and restart yet. --[[User:SaroEngels|SaroEngels]] 01:10, 25 January 2008 (CET)

:: I know this last error - but I don't know another fix than kill all apps and restart yet. --[[User:SaroEngels|SaroEngels]] 01:10, 25 January 2008 (CET)

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Enabling sound in KHangMan doesn't work, when it tries to play .ogg file it crashes. Amarok hangs at 98% CPU trying to play .ogg file. This could be my Windows install of codecs, but .ogg files play fine in WMP, VLC, MPC, etc.

Clicking on known filetypes in Dolphin gives C:/Program Files/KDE/share/applications/kde4/some app.desktop' is malformatted. alert (bug #156442). You can't run a .exe from Dolphin, it prompts you to choose an application to open it with (bug #158034).

Since I am not what you call a Linux guru, I tried initially installing as an end-user. However, that seems to not install certain things, and once you have made that choice, there is no going back - you can't change the installer settings from End User to Developer, and I think that may be why several packages are not being installed (for example, the kruler.exe program is not installed, and is not available to be installed)

kruler.exe is part of kdegraphics, and as "Status" says, not currently packaged

Another example: When running konquerer.exe, if I type http://www.google.com into the search bar, it complains about the following missing files: konq_aboutpage.dll, libkhtmlpart.dll, and katepart.dll. None of those files were available to install. Perhaps they are available if you say you are a developer, but I had no way to test that because the buttons that select end user or developer are grayed out.

Works for me, did you set KDEDIR and add the lib directory to your PATH as per "Summary of Steps"?

I do have one request, after you get the problems fixed, please consider adding krusader to the list of supported packages.

Okular and KStars crashed just after trying to access ksyscoca and then "launching kbuildsycoca4". I ran kbuildsycoca4 by hand and then both applications got further.

My display got garbled, displaying what looks like a backing store of the current window in the top left. This first happened with kolf.exe, then happened to KDE Installer. Closing every K* app seemed to cure it.

1. Even after following instructions in kbuildsycoca4 section below, still mime type id not getting picked up. In the information section it "shows type: mime" instead of correct type. Because of the same reason, I think, it shows all the elements with same icon (binary) including directories.

Fixed in 4.00.80 after running "Post-install steps"

2. If icon is clicked, open with dialog opens and if I choose kate from the list following error box appears "Service 'C:/KDE 4.0/share/applications/kde4/kate.desktop' is malformatted"

Looks awesome. In the list of cities in setup,
accented characters appear incorrectly as multiple characters,
as if the encoding is off. See screenshot.

When I clicked [Download extra data], it crashes. In DebugView, last thing it tried to do was open ksycoca and then launch kbuildsycoca4.

After running kbuildsycoca4 and restarting, KStars [Download extra data] created a "Get Hot New Stuff", but that window was obscured by both KStars and its wizard. It had a [Close] button but would not accept input. I was able to [Cancel] the KStars setup window, at which point both the KStars and Get Hot New Stuff windows appeared. There was nothing in Get Hot New Stuff for "KStarsAdd On Installer" (sic -- word layout bug), so I clicked [Close].

Had some problems adding a new location (fumbled original data). Steps to reproduce:
Settings / geographic. Add a new location (Foo, norway). Realize something went wrong, edit latitude (change from say 10 10 10.00 to 11 11 11.00). Click OK. Choose OK to Override data. OK out. Open Setting/geographic again - there are now two Foos with location == original, expected was one, updated location.

update-mime-database prints lots of warnings; ignore them.
Only an error that you should rerun it as root, means that you are in the wrong directory. - Change to kderoot and rerun.

kbuildsycoca has a similar issue: if there are still some processes accessing ksycoca it will ask you whether your disk is full. You should kill all processes that are accessing this file (see process explorer from sysinternals.com ) and rerun it.

This stuff is due to be run by the installer or by emerge. I will hopefully fix this in the next few days. Until then this has to be run by hand.
--SaroEngels 01:08, 25 January 2008 (CET)

crashes when you choose "Named Colors" from the list.
(It fails to open several .mo files and .js files,
then tries to read rgb.txt from various X11 directories and obviously it's not there,
and then crashes.)

First time it started klauncher.exe process but hung without displaying anything.
I killed the okular process and tried again; second time okular crashed; DebugView indicated it was trying to open ksyscoca, and when that failed it tried to launch ksyscocabuilder.exe:

I clicked [Continue] and got this alert again.
I think each time Windows was spinning up my empty floppy or CD-ROM drive.
Then the file dialog appeared but also an alert

Error - okular
The process for the file protocol died unexpectedly.

Meanwhile DebugView showed

[2916] not able to find 'kio_file' because KDEDIRS environment variable is not set.
[2916] Set KDEDIRS to the KDE installation root dir and restart klauncher to fix this problem.

I clicked Root in the file dialog and okular generated a ton of DebugView output in kdecore (KUrl) and then crashed.

I followed the instructions about setting up KDEDIRS, killed klauncher.exe, restarted Okular. I still got errors about No Disk but no more "file protocol death". Howeer, clicking Root in the file dialog still generates a ton of DebugView output and Okular crashes.

Even when I navigate to a folder with .png images in it, Open a document displays nothing. Even if I choose PNG image, it displays nothing. However, if I enter *.png in the Filter, it displays appropriate files.

However, choosing a png file results in okular displaying

Can not find a plugin that is able to handle the passed document

and then an error alert. Same for selecting a *.bmp.

Weirdly, entering *.jpg in the Filter immediately exits okular, with no errors.

It does display a fabulous notification bubble from the system tray when the tea is ready! Howeer, DebugView indicates "error while contacting knotify server" (I had configured KTeaTime to Play a sound, Show a message in a popup and Mark taskbar entry) :

It put up a dialog towards the back about progress, but unlike earlier app, that completed and it then worked great. I chose to, roughly. get words in a new language, chose France from the dialog/ Get Hot New Stuff showed up and worked but displayed an alert:

Error - KHangMan
Cannot start gpg and retrieve the available keys. Make sure that gpg is installed, otherwise verification of the downloaded resources will be impossible.

I installed gpgme and reran khangman, but now Get Hot New Stuff, did not display any categories.

The background appears but none of the tiles, and the icons for them in Create New Game are missing. So some directory is missing, could be C:\KDE4\share\pixmaps NAME NOT FOUND, I don't know where the tiles should be.

I tried the installer, but found it very inconvenient. It is very slow in downloading, does not support broken download, had no resume support etc... An option be given to download the required packages through torrent / download express etc. and then run the Installer from downloaded directory. An ISO image to download entire package may also be good idea. What about Localized KDE? I could not found that option either.

A lot of packages come with both release and debug binaries. The latter one are completely useless, at least to end users. It may be more sensible to separate debug binaries into their own packages.

rhabacker: where do you have seen this ? the qt bin package for example only contain end user applications and libraries. Debug libraries are located in the lib packages which are only installed in developer mode.

There seem to be mingw+msvc versions even for seemingly C libraries, e.g. dbus. Such libraries are usually easily exchangeable between compilers (e.g. an MSVC compiled library with a C interface usually works w/ MinGW without problems). Perhaps this is an opportunity to remove some unnecessary packages?

chehrlic: All is fine here, we need it the way it is. We also know how to use mingw libs with msvc and vice versa but it only works under specific circumstances which are not met here.

Everything's workin' perfect. But am i able to fully transform windows desktop environment into KDE ?

jstaniek 18:31, 30 January 2008 (CET) - short answer is NO. Not in the default setup, I guess. The transformation would break many native apps. Even if that can be fixed (really?), most users would still consider any such a full transformation as a breakage of the OS. What to do? As you apparently ask about replacing every part of Windows with KDE equivalents, just install Linux, BSD, etc. and and get all that immediately and natively.

Will kdegraphics be included in the next release?
Will the next release be built from 4.0.1 or 4.0.60 sources(from Dirk Mueller's snapshots)?

[edit] First attempt at using ANY KDE installer for windows... - 212.32.82.218 ( 9 February 2008)

Guys - it's interesting that i'm in the position of needing to use KDE. I would use Linux in some form without ever going near Windows.

However, I need to provide support for many customers who need Windows and so am stuck with it.

So here we are, I want to get the features of some KDE and then I notice this site.

dkintheuk: ok it's alive - used the next installer and it indicated that several components were not installed even though the previous installer said they were. I have amarok running right now and tried out some interesting things but can't get one thing to work...

I can't get bin\update-mime-database C:\KDE4\share\mime to work at all - it tells me that it doesn have permissions - yet it most definitely does... tested and tested and tested - permissions are properly set.

great concept! some apps don't work because of missing .dlls but the main reason that i wanted KDE is because my new notebook forces me to use Vista (hard to come back to windows after a few years of only linux), and Kmail is not being packaged! i also love Akgregator, and it suffers the same fate. please package Kmail at least! that would make it easier for me to migrate back to linux after the M70S becomes supported in linux.

Hoping to try out Krita, I learned that it's available as part of KOffice, and that KOffice 2 (presumably still beta) is available through the KDE installer.
Except that it isn't: not in KDE 4.1.3, not in 4.1.2, not in 4.1.1. There is a "UNSTABLE 1.9.95.10" version in KDE 4.1.0, but why would I want such an extremely obsolete package? Are there alternative installation approaches?

1.9.95.10 isn't necessarily obsolete. Since it's beta they probably just haven't versioned it 2.0 yet, as with amarok2 that's on version 1.94. — 83.251.203.70 11:02, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

It looks like the installer (0.9.6) doesn't support non-standard windows system folders. I tried it several times on 2 computers running xp with "sys" instead of "windows" and "bin" instead of "Program Files". Installer kept freezing on 25% doing something like “updating mime types”. The last entry in log file was about kbuildsycoca4, and I was able to find it in running processes. After I killed it, the installer could precede to registering start menu shortcuts (without success). Only after clean standard install of xp (normal folder names) it installed fine.